Hello everyone. Hope you are all staying safe. Happy Cinco deMayo !
Got the rods and wrist pins back from the new machinist and they are excellent.
Time to bring everyone up to date. I haven't posted anything because it's all too embarrassing.
Took a week off to finish the engine but that didn't work out for two reasons: Corona Virus. Wrong oil.
Everything was going good until I started to verify the oil jets were actually hitting the holes in the pistons. Since I'd have to operate the lubrication system I used my transfer pump to push oil through the galleys with the block upside down. Unfortunately I chose the wrong jug of oil and pumped the oil with the carbon back into the engine.
To remedy this, I started cleaning the engine with a solution of water, simple green, OxyClean and Marvel Mystery Oil. This did work but when I put new oil in the system there was very little oil pressure. So I decided to take it all apart again and start over. Stripped everything out of the block: Crank assembly, liners, freeze plugs, screw plugs, oil pressure relief valve.
Got a metal trash can filled it with water, Simple Green and OxyClean. Heated the solution for 3 hours until it started to boil then boiled the block for 2 hours more. Took it out and pressure washed it inside and out, and even in the oil galley and cooling jacket.
The block fits nicely into a 30-gallon metal trash can.
Having problems with my smartphone emailing pictures so I messed with the pictures to make the file smaller. No luck. Turned out I just had to turn the phone off and back on. That fixed it. Sorry about the crappy images.
The water was yellow from the paint.
Still wasn't sparkling clean, so I decided to Electrolyze it.
Already have a large plastic trash can so I fitted two construction stakes on either side for sacrificial anodes. Filled with water, Simple Green and OxyClean and started a 24-hour electrolyzing process. Next day the water was black and had a rusty grunge floating on the surface.
Highlighted the battery charger clamp connections in MS Paint. It's important to connect the positive (+) lead to the sacrificial anodes and the negative (-) lead to the engine block. Electricity travels from - to + and the rust goes the other direction and collects on the positive anode(s).
The inspector was asleep on the job.
Power washed the block and most of the paint came off, and most of the carbon came off the cooling jacket around the pistons, and the calcium build-up on the rest of it.
I think I'll electrolyze it for another 24 hours to see if the rest of everything comes off.
Dean.